advanced second life avatar customization This is a kind of follow-up to ↵second life creation, dealing a bit more in-depth with customizing avatars for “↑Second Life“ (SL). Basically there are four dimensions of manipulating the avatar’s visual appearance: shape, skin & clothes, attachments, and animations. In order to realize a complex vision of a custom avatar you have to tinker within all four dimensions. Here is an extreme example, one of Detect Surface’s masterpieces, the “Cyver:Refract”—available for purchase at (SLurl:) ↑D&D Creative Labs in the (SLurl:) ↑City of Abaddon: looks by animation The complete avatar is covered with attachments … Continue reading
Daily Archives: Tuesday, 11th December 2007
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It is eerie like hell, in my humble opinion. On 06 December 2007 ↑Toyota revealed two new “Toyota Partner Robots”, one of them able to ↑play the violin. At the World Expo 2005 they already had a couple of robots playing trumpets and horns ↑doing the welcome ceremony—it was a spark of genius to have them play “When the Saints are marching in” while entering the arena. Astounding how the automata of the 19th Century are perfected. But yet another thing strikes me as eerie. Today everybody wonders and cheers at the androids’ abilities to play musical instruments, but nobody … Continue reading